Debates, Group Chats, Clue, and Poker Night.

Lots to talk about with this post, mostly because of being too silent before. First up, I think the Debates feature is dead. While we had a full cast of judges for it, we only had one person sign up to actually debate about Nintendo's upcoming E3 situation. This situation is all too familiar for this feature, and I think I'm done trying to make it work. If anyone else wants to give it a shot, be my guest.

I do want to thank everyone who signed up and tried to participate. I'm sorry it wasn't able to happen for us.

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Secondly, with E3 coming up, it's a shocker that nobody's brought up the groupt chats publicly yet. We do them every year, and I'm thinking we'll do it on Skype again this year. I or dillaweezer will make a post closer to that date to get some signups, so we know who at add to the group. I may or may not wall whore people again this year, because while it was impressive having over 100 people in the same group chat last year, it made me feel dirty.

The thought occurred to me that E3 is not the only big event coming, so I wanted to see if anyone would be interesting in joining me for a group chat on Skype during the Microsoft event tomorrow. If you would, tell me in the comments and make sure you add DOJNDO on Skype.

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A conversation I saw yesterday gave me an idea. Let's have us a game of Clue, right here on MyIGN! I replaced the characters, weapons, and locations from the board game with those from various gaming sources. I did my best to make sure that no franchise was used more than once for anything. I even made a board! Now, I figure we have to spice up the rules a bit since we don't exactly have pieces or dice or cards over the internet, so I came up with a system just for us.

Each player will take on the role of one character. I will assign cards to each player, similar to the real game, and keep one character, weapon, and location to myself. My cards are what you will have to figure out. Each player will take turns guessing what my cards may be, similar to the source game. Without dice, we'll automatically get to guess each turn. However, to accommodate the nature of the game, each turn you will start in a room and will only be able to either stay put or move into an adjacent room; you can't enter a room that isn't right next to or connected to the one you were already in. Secret passages still work for corner rooms. The first player to accurately guess my cards will win!

if you'd be interested in playing, then let me know. The game will only support up to six players other than myself, just like the board game.

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One of the biggest requests over on the ULG is for a poker game. Trouble is, consoles haven't had a really good one. But I think I have a better idea anyways. See, EA owns a website called Pogo.com. And Pogo has a No Limit Texas Hold 'Em game for free. They have a bunch of other casual type games that you can play to get more tokens, and then those tokens can be used in the poker game. The site will only allow four players at a time in the game, but it will allow others to join in the room and chat with us until a seat opens up.

So, I wanted to see if there were any MyIGNers up for a poker day/night tomorrow, sometime after the Microsoft event. I can save a room and password lock it so only we can get in, and I'll provide instructions on how to find the room once I have it secured. If it goes well, it might even become a regular thing. So if you are interested, let me know.

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To recap quickly since this was kind of a hodgepodge post:

1) No more debates

2) Let me know if you want to group chat for the M$ event tomorrow

3) Let me know if you want to play MyIGN Clue

4) Let me know if you are into a poker night tomorrow or some other time.